The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-10-19

NtlukML Oh lAAG y.
This must be our Indian summer.
Circuit court meets in special
term, tomorrow.
Saturday was payday at the Ka-
nawha Lumber and Furniture Co.
AS yet our steam fire engine has
not arrived.
There no law against killing pos
sums if the pole-eat don't interfere.
Houses for tenement use are very
scarce in this place.
Jack Frost has been gettingin his
work.
Candidates for the county offices
are bobbing up from every quarter.
Several attempts at burglary were
made in this city last week.
The Glenwood tin mines excite
ment has broken out anew.
The building boom still continues
in this town.
The rents for private houses in
this city are entirely too high.
Mr.. vanGilder is going to heat
up his building with steam.
There is talk of building q Catho-
lie Chapel in this city.
We ought to organize militarys
company. We have the material.
a new brick pavement is being
laid along the old cemetery.
Mason county farmers ought to
have regular monthly stock sales.
Potatoes are very scarce and COM
mand high price.
Stock cattle are selling at q to 3
cents per pound.
The new officers of the K. & o.,
are not so "red tapish' as the other
fellows were.
Lew Deem, son of Abram Deem,
died in this city, last Saturday aged
p years.
The town was full of people Sat
urday, and a good many people wen .
also '.full''
People should fill their coal hou-
SEES while coal is cheap and the roads
are good.
A A. Hanly is now the owner of the
Mossman property, having purcha-
sed it from E. E. Baker.
1t is rumored that all the salt fur
naces along the bend, will be repai-
red and started up soon.
A six foot vein of coal has been
found on the line of the Ohio River
Railroad near Glenwood.
Marian, four year old daughter
of DR.. Campbell who has been seri-
Ously i'll, is improving.
Cardinal Newman says a gentle
man is one who never infiicts pain
This is rough on the dentists.
Col. Chew, of Jefferson county,
has just realized $4,000 from real
estate speculation near Chicago
Why not organize concert COM
pany to give performances once
month? Point Pleasant has talent.
Adkins three-story brick is an
ornament to the corner of Main and
Fifth streets.
a well equipped wooden factory
would be a paying investment in
Point Pleasant
The Englishman who said that
hugging was "'armless'' was wrong.
1t is '''armful"
Thos. Mears, we'll known in this
county, died suddenly at his home
il Steubenville, Ohio, last Saturday
Hereafter all obituary notices will
be charged for at the rate of four
cents per printed line, cash in adj
vance
The melancholy days are near at
hand; but they will he more melan-
choIy than ever owing % the failure
of the apple crop.
We have the best equipped county
job Office in the State, and can fur
nish the best work at the lowest
prices
A Gallipolis man got married last
week, got drunk, and spent the first
day of his "honey-moon" in the
lookup.
Lawrence young son of ]. S.
o'Roark, got grain of corn lin his
ear, and he had to be chloroformed
before the surgeons could get it out.
John E. Beller, Esq, of this city,
was married last Wednesday to
Miss Grace Behan, of West Column
bia. We extend congratulations.